Oh, come on. As if there are not enough Turks living in those countries to make counter-pressure. Even Merkel's Christian Democratic party has begun to have Turkish deputies elected. As a matter of fact; the Turkish population is rapidly increasing and Germany will soon have to come to a more pro-Turkish point. The same goes for your country, the Netherlands. In France; while there's a significant increase in right-wing movements; socialists are still in power and are preparing to lift their blocks upon Turkey's chapters.

Russia has less then 1/2 the population of the US but more then twice as many abortions. Russia (population 142 million) has about 1.5 million births a year, so there are roughly 1,800 abortions per 1,000 live births in Russia. The US (population 306 million) has approximately 4.3 million births per year, so that comes to roughly 279 abortions per 1,000 live births.

Healthcare probably plays a big role in abortion rates. Especially if you look at Canada on the list. An abortion will be $200-$800, having a child can cost upwards of $3000. But if the country is taking care of your medical for having a child, your probably more likely to keep it.

Healthcare probably plays a big role in abortion rates. Especially if you look at Canada on the list. An abortion will be $200-$800, having a child can cost upwards of $3000. But if the country is taking care of your medical for having a child, your probably more likely to keep it.

Not necessarily. Non private healthcare is (almost) free in the UK, we've got one of the world's abortion records (UK wasn't on the list)

The number of women having an abortion in England and Wales exceeded 200,000 for the first time last year.

There has been an increased figure almost every year since the legalisation of abortion in 1967 – and the indications are this year's figure will be even higher.
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'Pro-life': Tory MP Nadine Dorries has hit out at abortions which she believes are 'becoming a form of contraception'

Britain's termination rate is already the highest in Western Europe, and if trends continue it will bypass the U.S. within a decade as the place where the greatest proportion of births are terminated.

The shocking figures came just months after MPs rejected moves to restrict abortion to under 20 weeks only, in a bid to call a halt to the year-on-year rises.

The limit for social abortions stayed at 24 weeks.

Pro-life MPs say the figures prove that abortion has become so commonplace that hundreds of women are using it as a form of contraception.

Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire, said: 'Abortion is wrongly seen as an easy and trouble-free way of ending a pregnancy. It has moved from a resource that women turn to in an emergency and a point of crisis to becoming a form of contraception.

'This has been brought about as a result of an ill-conceived notion that it is just a minor procedure with no side or lasting effects, but this is not the case.'

The Office for National Statistics revealed yesterday that there were 205,600 abortions last year, with 198,500 carried out on Britons and the rest on women who had travelled from other countries.
. Portugal will go to the polls in a referendum to decriminalise abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy on February 11. REUTER

There were more than 200,000 abortions in Britain in 2007 - but there could be even more in 2008

Most abortions – 57,000 – were carried out on the 20 to 24 age group. However, there were 4,400 on the under-16s and 700 on those aged more than 45. Some 62.7 per cent of abortions were performed within nine weeks.

In the first six months of 2008, there were 105,000 abortions, slightly more than half last year's figure, indicating the annual total is likely to exceed that of 2007.

Pro-life campaigners are also becoming increasingly concerned with the number of repeat abortions.

The most recent figures for this from 2006 show that nearly 4,000 women have had four or more abortions – and dozens have had eight or more. There were 82 teenagers on their third abortion.

Overall, the number of women having repeat abortions has reached record levels.

In 2006, 59,687 abortions were performed in England on women who had already had one.

A third of terminations are now repeats, and the number has gone up by 5 per cent in two years.